Babbling angst.
Okay, so every day I go to Babble and I see how big the puzzle is for the day and how I'm doing in the rankings and all that stuff. Usually I think, "Maybe I'll do it later." Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don't. When I decide to do it, I print out a list of clues that a nice person posts on the web so that I know the first 2 letters of all the words. Then I cross off the words when I find them.
Today I decided to do my puzzle and I went to print out the clue sheet. I always copy and paste into a word processor so that I do not waste paper. I got everything set in Word, and it said that my margins were not set right. When it "corrected" them, it set my margins for something like 11 inches wide on paper that is only 8 inches wide! Word is very stupid! So I set it back and tried to print. It said that my paper settings were not the same as the printer. So I clicked the "ignore" button and it went back to whining about the margins. So I thought, "Screw you, Microsoft" and I opened WordPerfect.
Once in WordPerfect I set the margins and did everything, and it said, "There is no response from the printer." That means my husband's computer is not turned on. (That also means that Word was too stupid to figure out that there was no printer, and it just kept whining about the margins and paper size because it totally couldn't see that the printer was turned off.) So I went downstairs and turned the computer and the printer on. Then I tried again. It still could not find the printer. I closed WordPerfect and opened it again. This time it gave no errors, but still did not print the list! I went downstairs and the printer said, "printing". That was a big lie. If it had been printing, there would have been some paper with printing on it shooting out of the printer. There was not.
After that I gave up on my computer, copied the list into a word processor on my husband's computer and printed it from there. After all that, I could finally do the Babble puzzle.
So that's how boring my life is, sitting around and waiting for my job to start. I was almost completely out of money last week, but just in time for my credit card payment to be due, I got my federal income tax rebate and I got a 401k refund from my last job. So now I hopefully have enough money to last until I start getting a paycheck.
Alana
